White-Collar Crimes – Investigation and Advisory | Ethics and Compliance Issues | ESG Diligence and Investigations

Kunal Gupta is a partner in the White-Collar crimes (investigation) and ESG practices. Kunal has significant global experience in handling complex investigations and matters involving a variety of white-collar crime issues such as fraud, corruption, money laundering, sanctions, and Multilateral Development Bank sanctions proceedings. Kunal also has extensive experience in conducting ESG investigations, including of workplace misconduct and impropriety. He has led corporate investigations of allegations of fraudulent or corrupt practices, behavioural misconduct and other ethical issues, violations of procurement norms of various Multilateral Development Banks (such as the World Bank), and regulator-driven anti-bribery and ESG investigations. Kunal is well-recognised by boards of large Indian companies and multinational companies with an Indian presence in conducting complex confidential investigations and advising the board or its independent sub-committees in relation to ESG matters.

In addition to investigations, Kunal has substantial experience in conducting anti-bribery, ESG, and forensic due diligence for global investors and private equity firms. He has worked with global authorities such as the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Serious Fraud Office on global investigations. He has designed ethics compliance frameworks for a number of multinational and Indian companies. Kunal has also served as an independent monitor for a large sanction by the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency.

INDUSTRY BODY MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Committee on Corporate Governance, ASSOCHAM

Member of the ESG Committee, FICCI

RECOGNITION

Ranked individual in White-Collar Crimes practice by Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific, 2022 FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific, 2021 ‘Up and Coming’ by Chambers and Partners, 2021 ‘Next Generation Partner’, Legal 500, 2021-2022 ‘Global Leader’, Investigations by Who’s Who Legal, 2021-2022 ‘Future Leader’, Investigations by Who’s Who Legal, 2018 ’40 under 40′, Global Investigations Review (2017)

Bar Council of India

Partner - White-Collar Crime

LL.B., National Law School of India University, Bengaluru

Masters in Laws, Financial Laws, M&A, Securities, Harvard Law School

European Masters in Law and Economics (Rotterdam, Ghent and Hamburg) (cum laude)